Bangladesh's leading Qawmi scholars met with leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami during which the participants expressed hope for the establishment of an Islamic State led by Jamaat chairman Dr Shafiqur Rahman
Mehdi Biswas was also found predicting on Twitter the beheadings of US journalist James Foley and UK aid worker Peter Kassig just weeks before the Islamic State executed them. He was also accused of advocating for IS support in Kashmir, tweeting that the terrorists in Kashmir were martyrs.
The recent explosion occurred after the Philippine military's announcement that they had killed 11 terrorists, including members of the Dawlah Islamiyah-Philippines, which is a pro-Islamic State organisation.
According to the NIA, the accused had been instructed by their ISIS handler based abroad to pursue robotics courses and gain skills in order to carry out future terrorist attacks in the direction of the Islamic State agenda for India.